Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1887-11-25

generously decided TINT This Cbines4

| c' ,''" es'"P PoSSeSsioho vi our por-
deus and hothouses. Thousands OF
citizens have paid for the privilege Of
looking upon. these considerations of
lioral beauty. To walk among them
has seemed like crossing corner OF
heaven. We applaud this fioral OK.
Mbition as indicative OF elevated
taste. He who in the Book of books
compares himself to the rose of Shar.
on and the lily Of tho valley, no doubt
approves OF this decoration of our
city. There is possibility TINT tho
roRo, which has heretofore been con.
sidered tho queen of flowers, may be
outvoted by the l,0)0 varieties of
this Mongolian importation. Long
live tho chrysanthcmum
Some fear that it will get to bo a
crazo among our people, but there il
no danger of that If it were, like
wheat, something to eati or, like cot
ton, something to wcn,; or. like coal,
omething to burnt might get to
be a matter of wild speculllion; but
as it ia only something to look at,
our practical poople could not be
fronzied with chrysanthemums. Yot
it might be well 10 refer some of our
floral enthusiasts to the tulip mania
OF Holland III the Seventeenth ccntu.
ry. A lawyer transplnntcd tulip
from southern Russia, where 1t grows
without cultivation, to Holln,id, an.
after the flower ind grown in popu.
lnrity for about seventy years, aud.
denly nll Holland went into botnni
cul dcmentin. All classes of people
began to speculate in tulips. Whole
estates were invested in them. Tho
Viceroy tulip, tho Admiral Van
Dercych tulip and The Scnpor Au.
gustus tulip were tho more valuable.
Of this Inst variety ono root was sold
for S1,840,0OJ. Tho government
finally passed. law forbidding tho
wild prices, but not III timo to hinder
tho commercial ruin of all Hollnnd.
A aailor in Amsterdam ono day pick
cd up from n counter tulip root,
supposingit to be mn onion, md ate
it, and down his tliront went % whole
fortune, for which the poor man was
seized and tried and imprisoned.--
The mana was 30 terrific that frng.
ments, Of tulip no small that thoy had
no vitality in them were bought and
sold. An especial weight called the
pert was established TO soitle the
value of these iniinitesimnls. Nine
grent tulip exchanges were opened,
aud nll the oil and Morus lnulticnnlis
oxcitcmcnts of our own country put
together did not equal that tulip
marlin, which ragged for thioo years.
But / have no fear of chrysan-
thomnin mania in this country, nor
Of any other insanity of lowers.-
Every year let these regiments, these
brigados, these armies of floral troops
pnss i'll review before our over
wrought American people, aud Lot
what has been done for tho chrysnn-
ihemum DO done for NIL the other
royal families of flowers. I am glnd
that while the. sping is ga,landed
with blossoms, the autumn, though
Of browner cheek, has its appropriate
array; and That the dying year has
it's catafalqnc covered with goldenrod
and aster, and now tho glorious
chry santhemum.
But did you ever sec such on all.
tumn for hearty weather indoors or
out of doors ? feel rs If could
shout Such tonic air, such splendor
of Flora. such garniturc of leaf, sucl,
brown and golden carpets Of earth
or such glitterina of evening heav.
ems. What grand things tho frosts,
though 80 much maligncd. can do.
We usually suppose that the busi-
ness of the frost is to blast. is to
tear apart. is positively to kill, and
yet no painter ever made such ex.
qnisite tints. Stand back, Cropsey
Stand back, Turner! Frost In this
climate is like trouble which God
sends-it adorns and glorifics. AS
the frost changes the color of the
leaves, so God intended trouble to
rouse and kindlc in the Christian